Why or Why Did the Clinton Campaign Go Wrong

Today, the Huffington Post has a must read titled Microtrends versus Megatrends: Why Obama is winning where the fine progressive political commentator Arianna Huffington discusses in detail how the basic political worldviews of the respective campaign strategists (and candidates) emerged as a winning and losing campaign.

This is on top of NY Times Frank Rich's op-ed piece last Monday he titled The Audacity of Hopelessness. Frank Rich deftly compares her campaign management and message narrative to the disaster we know as the Iraq War, in short 'they' believing her own press spin of inevitability and that 'they' designed the primary season to be determined on "Super Tuesday" where neither was true and had no contingency plans as a result.

Both are good reads but again they are missing the critical secret ingredient in the recipe called the Obama Movement. Being a foot on the ground I know something these pundits cannot feel or see, Obama has sparked the waiting firestorm of waiting electorate to rise up in a bloodless revolution and take back their government. The megatrend that Huffington eludes to or the hubris that Rich identifies from being part of the permanent privileged class that her campaign and self came from the reason Obama is winning so big and broad is not because of political tactics or message management but because Obama is riding this revolutionary movement. This is why the major polls are not consistent nor can be relied upon in that they are using data sets and samples that are not capturing Obama's new coalition of support, previously disenfranchised voters, non voters, new voters or voters from outside the Democratic Party.

This is the start of a new age in our nation's history beyond the symbol of a mixed racial young man being elected president. This new age will eventually be coined a name but will have the profound effect that came when FDR ushered in the New Deal, or Lincoln brought about emancipation, or JFK finished it with equal rights or when Andrew Jackson tore down the banking system that was breaking the then western frontier.